St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-12-18
DRAMATIC DRIFT.

| DIT ll1c
the past week. 1t was the best both as
respects the dramatic ability of the star
and the gOrgeOusneSs of the stage set
ting and coStuming. Miss OLCOTr
played to large houses the first part of
| the week, but owing to the excitement
| over the National opera engagement
| her business suffered somewhat during
the latter part of the week.
The National Opera company will
| open its season in st. Paul tomorrow
| night in a grand spectacular production
| of RUBINSTEIN'S great opera Nero, )"
in which will be presented the famous
scene The Burning of Rome" which
is described as being the most effective
scene ever depicted on an American
stage. For Tuesday night the previously
announced bill of VERDI's aida"
has been changed to the 'Flying Dutch
man," in order to crafty a popular de-
sire to hear one of WAGNER'S compost
| lions during the engagement. Queen
| of Sheba" will be given at the Wednes-
day matinee, and Faust Wednesday
| evening, as previously announced.
| ~
A telegram last night from CHARLES
| 4. LOCKE, proprietor of the National
| Opera company, announced that his
| company would leave Omaha this morn
ing at O'Clock, travelling in two special
trains of twenty-five cars. The COM
pany will arrive at the union depot in
this city this evening about 9O'clock.
MIR. JONES, the advance agent, has en-
! gagged eighteen carriages and twenty
| Omnibuses to convey the members of
the company to the various hotels where
they will stay during their SOJourn lii
the city.
Following on the heels of the National
| opera engagement comes NEWTON
BEERS lyric spectacular play. Lost
in London" which will occupy the
| Grand the last half of the week. 1t is a
| poor spectacular show nowadays that
| doesn't have ballet and Bible story.
| Mr.. BEERS is provided with both. He
advertiSeS two fascinating fairy .balletS
giving three pleasurable hours and six
! impressive stage pictures, and i'll addl-
ton there is Jobs Vislon," giving
veritable glimpse of Glory Land. The
| glimpse of Glory Land from the stage of
st. Paul theater is fairy tale sure
enough.
An opera cyclone has struck the
Northwest. Next week, Christmas
week, we are to have "The Gypsy
Baron" which was so popular here last
season, and the following week ED
JOHNsTONE's "BostOnian" wing of the
old Ideals will take the town. The Bos-
tOnians" have had streak of luck this
season. Notwithstanding Col. Eos
TER'S Oft-repeated assertion that they
are bric-a-brac from NOAH'S ark, they
seem to have caught the drift of the
popular tide better than the colonel
| himself did.
The Bible has furnished wealth of
material for the poet and the artist. 1t
| is not singular then that the worlds
| great musical composers should have
| drawn on the sacred book for themes.
| The story of Queen BALKI'S visit to
| SOLOMON furnished KARL GOLDMARK
with subject worthy of his genius, and
| his treatment of it as given i'll his en-
chanting opera is lasting monument
| to his fame.
The Grand opera houses in Paris and
| La Scalar, Milan. must turn out great
many premiere ballet dancers. There
| isn't a travelling show with a ballet at
tachment but announces that its stage
| nymphs are led by some lady with an
unDrOnOunceable name, from one OF
| these opera houses. 1t has got to be as
| common as for an actress TO advertise
| that her dresses were made by WORTH.
| Why theatrical managers, catering to
| American audiences. should want to
| give foreign flavor to their perform
anceS is past finding out. The fact is
that most of the ballet premieres,aS we'll
as the stage costumes, come from New
York: and as New York can turn out as
good grade of each as either Paris or
| Milan, the wonder is that our American
managers are not willing to give our
American folks the credit they are en-
titled to.
There are great many young people
| who are Stage-Struck, who, ii they only
knew the truth that one year in the pro-
fessiOn would teach them, would be sat
| isfied to seek some other field for
wealth and fame. Stage success de-
ponds more upon luck than merit.
There are some actors of pre-eminent
4 ability, like BOOTH, SALvINI and BERN
HARDT, who rise in spite of circum-
stances. But in nine cases out of ten
those who have been most successful
have been the creatures of fortunate
circumstances. Acting has reached
that place which makes the stage man.
ager the autOcrat of the theater. The
man who knows how to mount play is
more successful artist these days
than the one who plays the dramatic
role.
The ballet has lost caste with Ameri-
can audiences. A nice clog dancer or
fancy Jig beats ballet all hollow.
There is a grace and melody OF move
ment in jig or clog that is sadly
lacking in the ballet, and then there is
no suggestiyeneSs of the vulgar.
~
ROSE COGHLAN has taken up GENE
WE'VE WARDS old play "Forget-Me-
! Not" Miss CoGHLAN must have i'm
proved her stage methods since she was
Grafton of detail if she can give as arts
tic impersOnatiOn of Stephanie as Miss
| WARD did.
LOTTA's kindheartedness got her
into trouble the other day. She was
taking a walk along a street in Boston
the other afternoon, when she saw
lame horse attached to herdic and be-
ing whipped by the driver. She re-
mOnStrated with the driver, and when
he refused to stop at her command, she
caught hold of the bride and delayed
the conveyance until policeman came
up and made the driver take the horse
to its stable. The cab had for its pas
senger a commercial traveller named
ABRAHAM SAMUELS, who got mad at
LoTTA and nowS sues her for $4,000
because he failed to catch his train.
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TEREsINA TUA, the young TITAN
violinist who has had remarkabI ca
reer in Europe, made friends of royalty
| on her recent tour of the continent. The
queen of Spain made her court violin
ist, and the queen of Italy decorated her
with the order of ''Stella d. Italia"
The queen mother of Spain gave her a
| nanninn Amafi violin ON which chn